Do Evil Emotions Control Your Life?

by Jonathon on November 30, 2009 · No Comments

evil emotions control life We love experiencing the “good emotions”, don’t we?

Love. Joy. Serenity. Peace.

But the ugly ones? Well, we don’t really talk about those, do we?

However, those ugly emotions are just as important for us to experience and express.

Because the “good” ones cannot exist without the “ugly”.

What’s happiness if there’s no unhappiness to compare the happiness to, right?

But that’s not the real point of this post.

The real point of all of this is to ask you who’s running the show that is YOUR LIFE:

- are you the one experiencing the emotion, allowing it to be there, to express it, and to allow it to change (as it always will) into the next emotion?

- do you try to stifle it; lock down on it, pretending it shouldn’t be there, acting all cool and calm and collected, when really you just want to punch every asshole in the room?

Who’s running the show in this scenario?

You or the emotion?

I ask, because everything you do in this last scenario is governed by that emotion.

“I can’t let people see I’m angry, so I’ll just smile heaps.” Are you smiling because you want to smile, or because you want to hide your anger?

“I can’t show this woman that I’m nervous. So I’ll act cool”.

When you’re acting WITH your emotion, you’re expressing yourself. When you’re acting over the top of your emotion, you’re trying to suppress yourself.

One is the action of someone who can walk through the world freely.

The other action is one of somebody constantly controlled by their emotions, reacting to life, rather than creating their experience of it.

You know what the secret is to getting an emotion to release it’s grip on you?

Express it. Stop pretending it’s not there.

Stop making it wrong.

I suggest to you that if you weren’t supposed to be feeling that emotion, then you wouldn’t be.

Anxious when you see that woman over there? Then BE anxious. Admit to yourself that you’re anxious and it’s OK, rather than trying to “argue” with it.

Hell, get in touch with your balls and let her know that you’re feeling a bit nervous.

In expressing it, you release it, and it’s hold on you.

In the scenario of the hot girl and the anxiety, in expressing that emotion, the words that follow are now owned by you, rather than being motivated by your need to cover up your anxiety.

It’s real, it’s honest, it’s authentic, and the most beautiful thing is that it’s easy:

I’m feeling anxious… peace.

Jonathon